Plantronics
(NYSE: PLT) today announced that Joe Burton, the company’s CTO and
senior vice president of technology, development and strategy, has been
appointed to the CTO Forum advisory board. The CTO
Forum brings together senior technology executives and business
leaders to discuss and collaborate on key technology issues facing the
industry to help accelerate innovation across organizations.
"We are very pleased to welcome Joe Burton to our advisory board. He
brings more than 25 years of experience and an excellent track record of
technology leadership and unified communications expertise to the CTO
Forum,” said Basheer Janjua, founder and chairman of the CTO Forum and
CEO of Integnology Corporation.
In his role at Plantronics, Burton is responsible for setting and
driving the company’s technology direction and leading the global
engineering teams and programs. Recent innovation milestones include
groundbreaking advances in the wearable technology space and
award-winning device integration with WebRTC.
“At Plantronics, we’re creating innovative solutions in audio and
wearable technologies that are changing the way we communicate, work,
and engage,” said Burton. “I’m delighted to be joining the CTO Forum to
exchange industry best practices, and look forward to collaborating with
fellow members to help drive the industry forward.”
Prior to joining Plantronics, Joe held several key executive technology
leadership positions at Polycom, Cisco, and Active Voice. During his
10-year career with Cisco, he served as Cisco's CTO for Unified
Communications, encompassing call management, IP phones, contact center,
conferencing, unified messaging, unified communications applications,
and advanced technologies and products.
Burton is the author of several communications patents and holds a
Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Regents College
New York.
About the CTO Forum
The CTO Forum is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering a
trusted, open and creative environment where the brightest minds of our
times convene to address the industry’s most important issues. The CTO
Forum brings together the best minds in the technology from different
industries to define opportunities, and to collaborate in harnessing the
extraordinary potential of technology. The CTO Forum’s mission is to
deliver a Global Innovation Platform, where technology leaders
collaborate and co-create the technology and solutions that will be
critical to meeting tomorrow’s global opportunities and challenges. For
more information, please visit www.ctoforum.org.
About Plantronics - Simply Smarter Communications®
Plantronics is a global leader in audio communications for businesses
and consumers. We have pioneered new trends in audio technology for 50
years, creating innovative products that allow people to simply
communicate. From unified communication solutions to Bluetooth®
headsets, we deliver uncompromising quality, an ideal experience, and
extraordinary service. Plantronics is used by every company in the
Fortune 100™, as well as 911 dispatch, air traffic control and the New
York Stock Exchange. For more information, please visit www.plantronics.com
or call (800) 544-4660.
Plantronics and Simply Smarter Communications are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Plantronics, Inc.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Plantronics
Laurie Guarino, 831-458-7529
or
CTO Forum
Alice Czepcova-Vallesteros, 408-806-9595